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. >>> question, did the republican convention improve mitt romney's presidential prospects? mortmort zuckerman? >> i think he had to have a platform on which he could appeal to the american public and i think by and large that worked. i think he was often trying to appeal to women and there were a number of things said and done that would i think haven deared him to the voters who are women. and finally, he did a very good job, it seems to me, without being nasty about it, about saying look, the obama administration has been a failure and failure is not an orphan. there is a father for failure and that is the president. that is the way our system works. we deserveber. we have the weakest economy we have had since the great depression and after $5 trillion by the standards set by the obama administration when they said the unemployment with never get above 8% and it would get below 6%, it's been a failure in that sense. it does give the republicans ammunition and they handled that i thought very well. >>> in the television age the more likable candidate always wins. i think t
. >>> question, did the republican convention improve mitt romney's presidential prospects? mortmort zuckerman? >> i think he had to have a platform on which he could appeal to the american public and i think by and large that worked. i think he was often trying to appeal to women and there were a number of things said and done that would i think haven deared him to the voters who are women. and finally, he did a very good job, it seems to me, without being nasty about it, about...
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governor mitt romney was the decisive winner in last night's presidential debate. in just a moment, i will be joined for an exclusive interview by both governor romney and his runningmate, congressman paul ryan. even the most left-wing observers have conceded that their candzidate bombed without his teleprompter last night. obama aides are trying to pin it all on mitt romney. believe it or not, they are accusing the governor of lying. of course, they are the ones that are. watch this. >> again and again and again, he told the story to the american people that is completely... in contrast with what he said before and unfounded in fact. and that's going to catch up with him. i give him credit for strong performance. i give him an "f" for being honest with the american people. >> sean: for 90 minutes, president obama lied about his record and president obama lied about what he would do in a second term. you want proof? here it is. >> if you want to be president, you owe the american people the truth, the truth. >> the fact check. >> this claim is based on a fiscal fic
governor mitt romney was the decisive winner in last night's presidential debate. in just a moment, i will be joined for an exclusive interview by both governor romney and his runningmate, congressman paul ryan. even the most left-wing observers have conceded that their candzidate bombed without his teleprompter last night. obama aides are trying to pin it all on mitt romney. believe it or not, they are accusing the governor of lying. of course, they are the ones that are. watch this. >>...
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there is something different about mitt romney as a presidential candidate as compared to every other modern major party presidential candidate, there's a certain amount of lying and stretching the truth and spinning history everybody expects if not tolerates at all levels of politics and on both sides of the aisle. there is something different about the romney campaign. this is an assertion by me and happy to see it challenged. there is something unique about the campaign and that is the frequency with which the candidate himself has been lying during the campaign. his willingness to lie about small stuff that doesn't seem to have political benefit to him, lying for the sake of lying but the campaign's lack of remorse or even explanation when they get caught lying. they don't correct it when they get called out, don't feel bad about it, don't seem to see it as a problem. case in point, the very first television add run by mr. romney's campaign. we talked about his announcement maiden speech when he launched his campaign, he told a big lie in this case about the economy. not just in h
there is something different about mitt romney as a presidential candidate as compared to every other modern major party presidential candidate, there's a certain amount of lying and stretching the truth and spinning history everybody expects if not tolerates at all levels of politics and on both sides of the aisle. there is something different about the romney campaign. this is an assertion by me and happy to see it challenged. there is something unique about the campaign and that is the...
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his performance at that first presidential debate. >> this is the third time that governor romney and i have met recently. as some of you may have noticed, i had ai lot more energy in our second debate. i felt really well rested after the nice long nap i had in the first debate. >> a funny line. let's go back to gloria. gloria, both of these candidates, the president, the governor, they have speech writers and they also sometimes, shall with he say, outsource the writing of these jokes to seasoned professionals. >> very often they outsource. i know they do at the white house when they have to get ready for the white house correspondents' dinner. they bring in the joke writers and then the speech writers take another look at it. these things go through many, many hands. i think tonight what you saw was two candidates trying to strike this balance we've been talking about, which is sort of getting in a dig at the other guy, friendly and also getting in, being able to dig at yourself is when mitt romney spoke about cuomo being able to run for president, he said, imagine that, having a fa
his performance at that first presidential debate. >> this is the third time that governor romney and i have met recently. as some of you may have noticed, i had ai lot more energy in our second debate. i felt really well rested after the nice long nap i had in the first debate. >> a funny line. let's go back to gloria. gloria, both of these candidates, the president, the governor, they have speech writers and they also sometimes, shall with he say, outsource the writing of these...
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mitt romney leading among white men by 33 points. president obama leading hispa c hispani hispanics. do you see those dynamics as fixed now or are they still in flux in the last two weeks? >> well, with regards to racial minority, going into the next two weeks we're going to see a lot of consistency. we have seen for months that african-americans and latinos have been very supportive of the president. and one indication with latinos we have seen in a recent poll is that enthusiasm has continued to go up. this is very important for the president because it translates that support into votes. but even more importantly, what we have seen is very high levels of enthusiasm in battleground states. so we see about 50 to 55% enthusiasm for the election. but when we look at nevada and florida, we're seeing upwards of 70%. on the flip side with women, we're seeing a bit more of uncertainty. in the past couple polls in the past two week, we have seen some bopping around. and in 2010 the republican party made gains with women in the midterm elec
mitt romney leading among white men by 33 points. president obama leading hispa c hispani hispanics. do you see those dynamics as fixed now or are they still in flux in the last two weeks? >> well, with regards to racial minority, going into the next two weeks we're going to see a lot of consistency. we have seen for months that african-americans and latinos have been very supportive of the president. and one indication with latinos we have seen in a recent poll is that enthusiasm has...
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governor romney will be followed by president obama at the charity gala that has become a must for presidential candidates. don't expect a repeat of the fiery romney/obama debate confrontation this week. they prize jokes over attacks as the candidates poke fun at themselves and each other vying for votes with only 19 days to go until the election. >>> good ink, ievening. i'm wolf blitzer in for piers morgan. we are going to bring you all of the one-liners live. let's set the stage. i want to bring in gloria borger, ralph, tonya and jim acosta, our political correspondent standing outside the waldorf in new york. set the stage for us, jim. what are we about to see? >> reporter: the alfred smith dinner, we are told that speech will begin at 9:05. he gets to go first. the president gets to go second. as you've noted and as we've been reported, this is typically a light-hearted affair. we have been reporting all day long that the gop nominee was in debate prep for most of the day. i should report that i did hear from a senior romney adviser that said that mitt romney also worked on this speech for
governor romney will be followed by president obama at the charity gala that has become a must for presidential candidates. don't expect a repeat of the fiery romney/obama debate confrontation this week. they prize jokes over attacks as the candidates poke fun at themselves and each other vying for votes with only 19 days to go until the election. >>> good ink, ievening. i'm wolf blitzer in for piers morgan. we are going to bring you all of the one-liners live. let's set the stage. i...
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we have to remember, mitt romney triumphed in a republican presidential field that was the worst republican presidential field in the history of the republican party. those are the debates he won. he was the one on the stage who did not look outright insane, compared to the rest of them. that isn't going to work for him tonight. he's going against the best debater mitt romney has ever been up against in his life. this is going to be, i think, a really great debate. >> preparing for this, i went back and looked at some of the 1994 debates between romney and kennedy, looking at some of that to see, you know, how does he deal with a democratic opponent? we've seen him debate a lot of republicans, but not a lot of democrats. and if it's half as fun as it was between him and ted kennedy, we are in for a very, very fun night ahead. lawrence, thank you for that, particularly on the rules. i think that was a really important point. we'll talk with you again soon. we are going to be getting more specifics from nbc's chuck todd in just a minute in terms of which each of the campaigns is aiming at ton
we have to remember, mitt romney triumphed in a republican presidential field that was the worst republican presidential field in the history of the republican party. those are the debates he won. he was the one on the stage who did not look outright insane, compared to the rest of them. that isn't going to work for him tonight. he's going against the best debater mitt romney has ever been up against in his life. this is going to be, i think, a really great debate. >> preparing for this,...
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and it tells us a lot about mitt romney in terms of where his values are. which is either the idea he's willing to do and say anything to zban power or he is aligned with the radical view that over 80% of the american people think this congress is doing a bad job. but mitt romney thinks that's the direction to go. >> when you look at this platform, richard, and i outlined a lot of the planks in my opening segment. about abortion with the rape and insist. the rest clearly there. if you look at the fkt that more people have shown interest about learning the gop platform than romney or ryan's acceptance speech. from the pew poll, that's where people are. people are coming to this platform. that could be a problem. look at what jeb bush said yesterday on "meet the press" and what he says carefully about the tone but not necessarily about what they are going to really represent and advocate. listen to this. >> our democratics are changing. and we have to change not necessarily our core beliefs but how we -- but the tone of our message and the intensity of it. th
and it tells us a lot about mitt romney in terms of where his values are. which is either the idea he's willing to do and say anything to zban power or he is aligned with the radical view that over 80% of the american people think this congress is doing a bad job. but mitt romney thinks that's the direction to go. >> when you look at this platform, richard, and i outlined a lot of the planks in my opening segment. about abortion with the rape and insist. the rest clearly there. if you...
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it is presidential to say, i have done this, now what are you going to do? and the record shows that you won't do that. last time romney got away with arguing about 10% of the policy, and he looked good. if we have 100% match tonight, romney cannot possibly walk out of -- >> is there different terra firma for the two candidates? >> the big omission to me so far sim gra is immigration. you have 12 million people watching with bated breath what's happening. and it's one of the issues where mitt romney took not the most substantiative position, but the most rhetorical positions during the primary. and nassau county is the 12th wealthiest county in the country. and one thing i think is interesting to see is the questions coming from this populous. i day dream what a town hall in the bronx, where i grew up, would look like, and the issues that might come up in that setting versus the issues that might come up from the voters in nassau county. >> the second presidential debate is nearly upon us. we've got the obama campaign's robert gibbs standing by. this is msnb
it is presidential to say, i have done this, now what are you going to do? and the record shows that you won't do that. last time romney got away with arguing about 10% of the policy, and he looked good. if we have 100% match tonight, romney cannot possibly walk out of -- >> is there different terra firma for the two candidates? >> the big omission to me so far sim gra is immigration. you have 12 million people watching with bated breath what's happening. and it's one of the issues...
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it means you have a heart and a brain. >> republican presidential nominee mitt romney staked out a position on immigration that was far to the right of even his own party, which was pretty far to the right and he's been pretty blunt about it. >> we went to the company and said, look, you can't have illegals working on our property. i'm running for office, for pete's sake. i can't have illegals. >> the answer is self deportation. >> you have talked about self deportation. if businesses could their jobs asking for the right documents. what about arresting? should there be aggressive seek them out, arrest them as sheriff arpaio would like? >> i think you see a model here. if i were elected and congress were to pass the dream act and i would veto it, the answer is yes. >> how does a candidate with those policies make an appeal for latino voters in an election year? he sends other people to do it for him. preferably, in espanol. >> me padre mitt romney. >> at this year's republican national convention not just his one spanish speaking son, but every state wide latino politician in the country, p
it means you have a heart and a brain. >> republican presidential nominee mitt romney staked out a position on immigration that was far to the right of even his own party, which was pretty far to the right and he's been pretty blunt about it. >> we went to the company and said, look, you can't have illegals working on our property. i'm running for office, for pete's sake. i can't have illegals. >> the answer is self deportation. >> you have talked about self deportation....
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if romney won the instant reactions from last night's debates, it's more than possible that the obama camp can win the next 24 hours. also tomorrow the labor department releases its monthly jobs report potentially, giving team obama a chance to change the narrative. let me bring in political editor -- senior political edit editor, mark murray. patrick gaspar was here a moment ago. he had the same strategy you pointed out earlier this morning. they're looking at the long picture or big picture here, and not focusing too much on the one debate. >> that's right. they tried to turn the message. they had an aggressive conference call today. you saw a fiery president obama campaigning in denver trying to point out what they said were misstatements that mitt romney made at the debate last night. so that's what they are actually trying to do. i will say as we wrote in first read, there is that kind of 24-hour period on how the campaigns can try to shake things. just seeing the body language, seeing a lot of the commentary, the obama campaign is still struggling. diana on andrea mitchell's pro
if romney won the instant reactions from last night's debates, it's more than possible that the obama camp can win the next 24 hours. also tomorrow the labor department releases its monthly jobs report potentially, giving team obama a chance to change the narrative. let me bring in political editor -- senior political edit editor, mark murray. patrick gaspar was here a moment ago. he had the same strategy you pointed out earlier this morning. they're looking at the long picture or big picture...
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these are arguments worthy of a presidential campaign. what paul ryan is talking about, i think it will be blended together in the context of romney's comments, but i don't think it's necessarily fair to do it. >> i think you're right about the political blending of it and about the necessity of that discussion and that could be a sober and serious discussion. the part that makes it political is when you get this moral for anybody on the receiving side of a net transfer from the government. that's you're not taking responsibility for your life. you don't believe in the american dream stuff. >> it's the 47% comments. you're really talking about the entire enlisted core of the united states military, for example. i believe that veterans, for example, have earned the benefits that they are being given. so he described a big portion of the company that are republican voters. that's why it was so politically damaging. but i think what paul ryan is talking about is a different category. >> we shall see if this survives past tomorrow's big day.
these are arguments worthy of a presidential campaign. what paul ryan is talking about, i think it will be blended together in the context of romney's comments, but i don't think it's necessarily fair to do it. >> i think you're right about the political blending of it and about the necessity of that discussion and that could be a sober and serious discussion. the part that makes it political is when you get this moral for anybody on the receiving side of a net transfer from the...
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. >> we can add to the list of foreign policy worries about a possible presidential mitt romney that he doesn't know what a dirty bomb is. it's not a nuclear explosion. it's not a mushroom cloud. you don't need to have a nuclear program in order to make a dirty bomb possible. you don't need material from a nuclear weapons program to put together a dirty bomb. it's just a regular bomb that explodes the regular way except packed with radioactive material. it can come from medical waste. it can come from nuclear power plants. it could come from smoke detectors. every country in the world has plenty of material to make a dirty bomb if they wanted to. so by singling out a nuclear-armed iran as a threat to the u.s. in terms of what it would take to make a dirty bomb, he's displayed profound ignorance on a profound subject. he doesn't know the difference between a dirty bomb and a nuclear bomb. therefore, foundationally, he misunderstands what is important or not important about iran having a nuclear program. that's one of the reasons he says he's running for president, is how important he
. >> we can add to the list of foreign policy worries about a possible presidential mitt romney that he doesn't know what a dirty bomb is. it's not a nuclear explosion. it's not a mushroom cloud. you don't need to have a nuclear program in order to make a dirty bomb possible. you don't need material from a nuclear weapons program to put together a dirty bomb. it's just a regular bomb that explodes the regular way except packed with radioactive material. it can come from medical waste. it...
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it's because right now, we're facing a presidential campaign and governor romney that wants to take that right away. and this is something that the supreme court has said in casey which was the last time that roe v. wade was challenged, this is a right fundamental to women. the fact that now that somebody wants to take that off the table is pretty dangerous. and it's scary for a lot of women voters. >> just to clarify my point. i wasn't saying the majority of women identify as pro-life. the country is evenly split, pro-life, pro-choice, on that identification and evenly split among men and among women. the other thing i'd say there, is strong public support for roe v. wade overall. mostly, people think that roe v. wade only legalized abortion in the first trimester, when it pretty much legalized it throughout pregnancy without restriction. there is strong support for restrictions in the second trimester abortions which roe v. wade makes impossible. so, yes. i'll leave it there. >> let me bring in jim acosta. "the orlando sentinal" came out with an editorial tonight, endorsing mitt romney
it's because right now, we're facing a presidential campaign and governor romney that wants to take that right away. and this is something that the supreme court has said in casey which was the last time that roe v. wade was challenged, this is a right fundamental to women. the fact that now that somebody wants to take that off the table is pretty dangerous. and it's scary for a lot of women voters. >> just to clarify my point. i wasn't saying the majority of women identify as pro-life....
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once he gets this losing the election with mitt romney thing out of the way on tuesday. we have seen this sort of leaking from one wing of a presidential ticket before, in 2008 with election day just a week away, conservative leaders apined to "the new york times" about what they wanted for sarah palin's future if/when she and john mccain were to win. if mccain loses she could emerge as a bearer. her prospects in and out of government are among conversations with conservative leaders. the aides insist winning this time around is her sole objective, but there are signs she is making sure she is well positioned for the future if she and mr. mccain lose. zen days before the '08 election it became clear whatever they were saying about how confident they were that they definitely were going to win, the plans republicans were making and the way they were positioning themselves, including to the press, indicated otherwise. that was october 28th, 2008. seven days before election day. now this past week it's anonymous paul ryan loyalists speculating about all the wonderful things
once he gets this losing the election with mitt romney thing out of the way on tuesday. we have seen this sort of leaking from one wing of a presidential ticket before, in 2008 with election day just a week away, conservative leaders apined to "the new york times" about what they wanted for sarah palin's future if/when she and john mccain were to win. if mccain loses she could emerge as a bearer. her prospects in and out of government are among conversations with conservative leaders....
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ohio is that important in modern presidential politics. look at this, both the romney and obama campaigns are out stumping now, tonight in ohio. governor romney and president obama have 50 possible states to fight over, at least theoretically. they have nine or so swing states that seem to actually be in play. tonight mitt romney and barack obama are both in just one state. mr. romney appearing with chris christie and rob portman in akron, ohio. the president showing up with will.i.am. at ohio state in columbus. >> buckeyes, we need you. we need you fired up. >> we're going to do it. ohio's going to elect me the next president of the united states. >> all the interest in competing in ohio, the desperate need to win the election in ohio, the dualing rallies and the ground games and all of that. all of that comes from the context of a big surprising decision in ohio this afternoon, about how the election is going to be run there this year. back in 2004, the night that the democratic ticket decided not to concede the race on election night be
ohio is that important in modern presidential politics. look at this, both the romney and obama campaigns are out stumping now, tonight in ohio. governor romney and president obama have 50 possible states to fight over, at least theoretically. they have nine or so swing states that seem to actually be in play. tonight mitt romney and barack obama are both in just one state. mr. romney appearing with chris christie and rob portman in akron, ohio. the president showing up with will.i.am. at ohio...
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i give you the next president of the united states, romney said on saturday. getting it wrong wasn't the gaffe, it was some fear, naming ryan himself. this guy could be worse than quyale because this time, the presidential candidate and his team knew the weakness, saw the trouble they were walking into before they walked into it and that's not the best argument for mr. romney's business. this may be the worst merger since aol bought time warner. with me are bob shrum and michael steele. i want to start with you, michael because you're always a stra straight shooter around here. is cold feet too cold a term to tough a term for the feeling some are having about ryan with his difficult budget to sell? >> i don't think it's so much cold as it is nervous. i think that as the dust has settled on this and particularly those down ballot congressional races, we're only talking about 25-seat change in the house. when half are close to half of these seats may be in districts that are too close to call for some republicans, if it becomes a major concern, now that as you a
i give you the next president of the united states, romney said on saturday. getting it wrong wasn't the gaffe, it was some fear, naming ryan himself. this guy could be worse than quyale because this time, the presidential candidate and his team knew the weakness, saw the trouble they were walking into before they walked into it and that's not the best argument for mr. romney's business. this may be the worst merger since aol bought time warner. with me are bob shrum and michael steele. i want...
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romney and mr. obama have both concluded their remarks. now, those were live, just a couple blocks from here, in new york city. i'm here with w. kamau bell from "totally biased" with w. bell on fx. is this the sort of thing you score and say who was better? or is there something more important about their competing performances here? >> you know, it's like any talent competition, you have to judge several different categories. >> okay. >> both of them are funny, both of them can deliver a line. barack obama knows how to do this. i feel like barack obama is like a swiss army knife. he's got several different settings. funny barack is a very easy setting for him. >> okay. >> whereas romney has awkward romney and mean romney which is why funny romney is not a setting for him which is why he looked awkward when he was funny. >> he was funny. opening joke where he was talking about wardrobe changes on the campaign, sports coat, suit and tie for an evening event, ann and i can relax with what we wear around the house. looked very stern while del
romney and mr. obama have both concluded their remarks. now, those were live, just a couple blocks from here, in new york city. i'm here with w. kamau bell from "totally biased" with w. bell on fx. is this the sort of thing you score and say who was better? or is there something more important about their competing performances here? >> you know, it's like any talent competition, you have to judge several different categories. >> okay. >> both of them are funny, both...
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gwen: while poll after poll documents a distinct change in the presidential contest and as romney releases another year of tax returns, voters begin to focus. covering the week, gloria borger of cnn. john dickerson of "slate" magazine and cbs news. john harwood of cnbc and "the new york times" and sam youngman of reuters. >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week with gwen ifill and national journal" , produced in association with "national journal." cooperate funding is provided by -- >> this rock has never stood still. since 1875 we've been there for our clients through good times and bad. when their needs changed we were there to meet them. through the years from insurance to investment management, from real estate to retirement solutions, we've developed new ideas for the financial challenges ahead. this hock has never stood still, and that's one thing that will never change. prudential. ♪ >> wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. >>
gwen: while poll after poll documents a distinct change in the presidential contest and as romney releases another year of tax returns, voters begin to focus. covering the week, gloria borger of cnn. john dickerson of "slate" magazine and cbs news. john harwood of cnbc and "the new york times" and sam youngman of reuters. >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week with gwen...